Comments on: PipeJax - pure javascript version, Yahoo Pipes to Ajax Bridge

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:35:32 +0000

Hi Felix, your suggestion in the last comment worked well in getting the description of a feed displayed, but I haven’t had any luck trying to restrict the output. I looked into the code you wrote in pipes-pure.js, and noticed you have a function in there that does something similar to the title. I couldn’t figure out how it worked though, especially what you set the limit to be. I attempted to duplicate it for the description, but that didn’t quite work. Do you have any suggestions on how to proceed on this? Ideally, the solution would limit the description output to around 250 characters while also stripping out any images that may appear.

By: felix

felix — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:48:41 +0000

Prentiss - huh, that’s probably a good idea! I’m about to leave on my honeymoon, so I can’t update the code just yet but I’ll add that in when I get back. If you’re interested to take a shot I think all you’ll need to do is add more fields (i.e. add in deasil_pipe_description, or whichever fields you want to pull from rss) into your html and then edit in the deasil.doit() function where you see things like var Link = $(’#’ + id + ‘.deasil_pipe_link’) - add a new one for the new fields and then set it below, with something like description.append(cur.description). Something along those lines. But I’ll also give it a whack when I get back. :)

By: Prentiss Riddle

Prentiss Riddle — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:41:17 +0000

Nice! Now, though, I’m looking for a simple solution for incorporating the full text of a Pipes RSS feed, not just a list of links. I thought about trying to extend your solution, but I quickly got in over my head. Suggestions?

– Prentiss Riddle riddle@io.com

By: Nitin

Nitin — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:32:43 +0000

Yahoo pipes team have posted something similar on
http://blog.pipes.yahoo.com/examples/example.01.html

By: christophe

christophe — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:52:07 +0000

Thanks,
I have download the new tar.gz file above.
In the file “test.html”, i have replace “pipes-pure-test.js” by “pipes-pure.js”, class=”d easil_pipe” by class=”deasil_pipe”, class=”dei asil_pipe” by class=”deasil_pipe”.

It works fine.

By: felix

felix — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:26:43 +0000

ok, yahoo changed something so they were not liking array notation in the callback function. I updated that to dot notation and all seems well again, please give it another shot!

Just redownload the new tar.gz file above and that should give you the slightly modified pipes-pure.js.

By: felix

felix — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:45:34 +0000

Yes, something seems to have changed on the Pipes side about yesterday or the day before. I haven’t had a chance to look into this yet. Sad.

By: christophe

christophe — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:22:03 +0000

Thanks, nice app

I have got these errors on Firefox (it doesn’t work on IE either)
deasil.pipe_callbacks_0_ is not a function
deasil.pipe_callbacks_1_ is not a function

With the “web developer” add on of Firefox, when I view javascript, i can see (with “_callback=deasil.pipe_callbacks[0]“, yahoo pipes returns “deasil.pipe_callbacks_0_”) :

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/AHaR2Y242xGwcHpiZFUMqA/run?_render=json&_callback=deasil.pipe_callbacks0&num=2&text=snowboarding
deasil.pipe_callbacks_0_({”count”:2,”value”:{”title”:”technorati …
….

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/AHaR2Y242xGwcHpiZFUMqA/run?_render=json&_callback=deasil.pipe_callbacks1&num=4&text=jquery
deasil.pipe_callbacks_1_({”count”:4,”value”:{”title”:”technorati ….

By: felix

felix — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:32:12 +0000

Thanks, stringle looks pretty sweet, too!

By: Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:01:09 +0000

Nice app :-)
I took a different approach and tried to hand the rendering work over to Grazr by generating grazrscript UIs (for example, some are here: http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/009993.html)

I only just came across your blog (via cleverclogs) and can already see my weekend disappearing trying some of your pipework out!

tony